Purpose: Professional engagement among women is growing at the same rate as that of men. The shortage of women in key governance roles and decision-making positions has been the most controversial issue. Based on this statement the foremost aim of the study is to explore how managerial women feel about their career advancement and compare their views on career advancement with those of respondents with nuclear or joint families. Design/Methodology/Approach: The present study adopted a quantitative research methodology including managerial level women as participants. Findings/Result: The findings reveal that women in public organizations are optimistic about their career advancement; that their organizations have strong policies and procedures in place to help women rise to higher levels of employment. However, men's networks, the low number of women in higher-level positions in organizations, and the necessity to do better work than male acquaintances to be promoted were barriers to their professional empowerment. In addition, when it comes to career advancement, singles and joint families have opposing viewpoints. Originality/Value: The study contributes by examining female managerial personnel' perceptions of their career advancement in Nepal's public sector. The results of the study show that there are considerable differences in family types when it comes to job advancement. Paper Type: Research paper

Purpose: The major purpose is to access perceptions, examine relationship, and identify the impact of socio-cultural factors on women's career development in Nepalese government agencies. Design/Methodology/Approach: The study included both qualitative and quantitative methods, and 22 government agencies were chosen for the study using a simple random sampling technique. Mean and standard deviation were used to analyze women's perceptions, the correlation was used to study the relationship between socio-cultural elements and career growth, and multiple regression was performed to identify the impact of dependent and independent variables. Findings/Result: The majority of respondent’s belief that social factors play vital role to impact women career development when it comes to comparing with cultural factors. Studies show that there is a significant relationship between social and career development as well as culture and career development. Both social and culture factors have a considerable combined impact on career development. Originality/Value: This research will be useful to the Nepalese government and policymakers for motivating and directing women at the highest levels of government agencies. This work may potentially be useful to other researchers. Paper Type: Research paper